July 2010

By L. Randall Wray, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Research Director with the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Senior Research Scholar at The Levy Economics Institute. In recent months,…

Source: Casey Research

From Win Thin, Senior Currency Strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman. Spanish media is quoting Finance Minister Salgado as saying all Spanish banks had passed the stress tests.  Spokesperson later tried to walk these comments back,…

Here are the links today. I have a lot more than this but some time limitations this morning as I am preparing for a spot on BBC Five Live for 5PM UK time (12PM EDT). The Prime Minister is in town and I will provide some economic commentary…

By Michael Pettis In the past few weeks I have been getting a lot of questions about serial sovereign defaults and how to predict which countries will or won’t suspend debt payments or otherwise get into trouble.  The most common…

This comes via the BBH Currency Strategy Team. Highlights US dollar is mixed on the day vs. the majors, as markets search for direction ahead of Friday’s stress test results being released.  The euro made a marginal new high for the…

Well, I, for one, am more or less willing to throw in the towel on behalf of Inflation. For the near future at least, his adversary in the blue trunks, Deflation, has won on points. Even if we get intermittently rising commodity prices,…

There is a comprehensive review today in The Washington Post of a two year investigation of a hidden world that orbits what is known as Homeland Security. Here are a few highlights: These are some of the findings of a two-year…

John Hussman is out with his latest weekly commentary. He continues to make good points about the market's overvaluation despite the forward earnings crowd's cries that P/E ratios (see Hussman: US shares are 40% overvalued). While Comstock…

Marc Chandler is on holiday. This post comes via Win Thin, senior currency strategist at BBH. Newswires are reporting that a big German institution failed the bank stress tests.  The fact that this institution had already been taken…